Paragraph 1 Sea Fish Industry Act 1962

The function under section 17 of the Sea Fish Industry Act 1962^f1 of authorising operations in the Northern Ireland zone—

(a)

shall be treated as exercisable in or as regards Northern Ireland for the purposes of sections 6 (legislative competence) and 86 (provision for purposes consequential on Act etc.) of the 1998 Act, and

(b)

shall be transferred to the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 1962 c. 31. Section 17 was amended by the Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967 s.25(1), Sch. and the Fishery Limits Act 1976 s.2(8). [A] relevant amendment[s] to the definition of “the Ministers” in section 33(2) [was] [were] made by the Consequential Modifications Order art.4, Sch.2, para.33 [and the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Dissolution) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/)].